One wonders whether Tina-who-was, before her untimely death, was this skilled at manipulation. Did Tina-who-is get any of this tendency by inheritance (so to speak) or is it all coming from the demon collective?

I think the boy-toy type of a Sphinx only happens in the immortal ones like Phix. Shellinx is more the boyfriend type since she has a mortal’s ephemeral lifespan (Her 80 millenia in the Time Forest would not count here since she was mostly alone) I would think.

Just got a warning on this page that IE7 “modified this page to help prevent cross-site scripting.” Three of the ads have been replaced by a “#” character. Sorry, don’t know what the ads would have been, but cross-site scripting has been known to steal info out of one’s browser, and is not a good thing to allow.

Note I have NO PROBLEM with ads that do not move, are not noisy, etc… problem is, many other websites use the same adserver, and are not as ‘polite’.. I do not have time to do extensive mods, when I am only taking a 10 min break from work!!!! 🙁

A couple of the ads I see today on my iPad have a Google AdChoices icon-tag in the top right corner, and when I looked at the page Javascript in Firefox I saw some references to AdChoices in the script. AdChoices apparently uses DoubleClick cookie information to select ads. I’ve noticed, frequently in the past week or two, ads on Wapsi from companies whose websites I had surfed a day or three before.

So, my guess is that the cross-site scripting you are seeing may be Google/DoubleClick related.

Hello, I just wanted to say how much I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your comments. I was intrigued by an ad from another webcomic site, and started from the very beginning. It took a long time (just read through, didn’t notice the archive), but

(sorry, enter button must have been impatient)
I’m finally up to date, and I’m certainly more than dedicated now! I would love if you made paper comics of Wapsi Square, but I can settle for download. Please continue your totally excellent storytelling Paul!

Tina. That you opened your mouth is the sign that you want the exact opposite of “forget it.” If she walks out now, this whole thing is gonna gnaw and bother her like too small underwear until she comes storming back in raging frustration.

and with M’s comment in the last panel… whole being… walk away… yeah right!… to me that whole statement is totally out of character for her, when has she EVER left anything alone when she has the option to walk away from it? uh… never!… yeah, whether it’s her overwhelming urge to fix things, or Tina’s reverse psych-out, but yeah she’s gonna be late to work today!

When I was at university someone pointed out that it was hard to not think of something. He said “Don’t think of a camel” and asked me if I was thinking of a camel. I honestly stated “no”. What I didn’t say was that, at that point, was the Pyramids of Egypt.

Come to think of it, when I first read your post, I was thinking of a circus.

A few years ago, on a series called Monster Garage, starring Jesse James, they’d take vehicles and turn them into something else altogether. In one of those episodes, they started with a Big Rig Truck (as in tractor trailer), and turned it into a motorcycle (although they wound up making it a Trike rather than a Bike). That might have been big enough…

Tina seems to be very comfortable with having Shelly around Mucho Mocha, even though Shelly is apparently in a very bad mood. Tina’s come a long way since her panic-stricken reaction on the day of the Time Forest transformation… having an upset 80k-year-old neosphinx around the shop doesn’t seem to be fazing her very much at all. That’s a lot of trust to have developed (and/or a lot of resiliency in the Collective)… good to see (I think).

I admit to being a bit worried about Tina’s reassurances that Monica’s attention isn’t needed, because Shelly’s situation is “taken care of… not a problem.” Assuming that Shelly’s upset has to do with Justin (seems likeliest), the only way I can see in which it could be “taken care of” with no implications for Monica is the one in which Shelly decided to keep Justin entirely in the dark, and completely break up with him. “Dear Justin…”

I’d hate to see that happen.

If Shelly did decide to tell Justin about her sphinx-nature, it’d certainly pull Justin into the whole Wapsi-supernatural-weirdness business, and thus involve Monica… and so I’d think Tina’s “you don’t need the worry” reassurances wouldn’t be valid. Unless… could Tina be lying outright to Monica (or, slightly more kindly, deliberately misleading her)?

I was just thinking, her mood could be brought on by her being tapped to perform some sphinxly duties by the powers that be. Can’t have a sphinx just sitting around not enforcing the laws after all, even a halfbreed.

I object your honor! Casey’s clearly trying to get me to break the 5th Amendment, and as such he should be Remanded into the Custody of the Court, this case Dismissed WITH Prejudice, and if i may be so bold as to suggest that he even be Dis-Barred, as well….